Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Pugham Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Burlescombe

Historical Forms

Pogeham 12th Canonsleigh 14th Exon 1324 SR 1330

Pugeham 1249 Ass

Pug(g)aham 1173–5 Ch 1329

Puggeham 1287 Ass

Etymology

'Pocga 's ham(m),' cf. Pugsley supra 349.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Burlescombe